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Alan M. Taylor (PhD, Purdue University) is French Section Head at Brigham Young University-Idaho. His research areas include CALL and L2 reading, Reading Strategy Training, L1 glossing and meta-analytic methodology in L2 research. He wrote one of the first quantitative meta-analytic dissertations in the L2 learning field in 2002 and has since published seven quantitative meta-analyses examining the effects of paper-based glossing, CALL glossing and strategy training on L2 reading comprehension. His work has been published in journals such as CALICO, Reading in a Foreign Language, Language Learning and Technology, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics and the Canadian Modern Language Review.